_           _ _     _                                               
| |__  _   _(_) | __| |  _   _  ___  _   _ _ __    _____      ___ __ 
| '_ \| | | | | |/ _` | | | | |/ _ \| | | | '__|  / _ \ \ /\ / / '_ \
| |_) | |_| | | | (_| | | |_| | (_) | |_| | |    | (_) \ V  V /| | | |
|_.__/ \__,_|_|_|\__,_|  \__, |\___/ \__,_|_|     \___/ \_/\_/ |_| |_|
                         |___/                                       
  __ _      _     _                              _ _                 
 / _(_) ___| | __| |  _ __ ___  ___ ___  _ __ __| (_)_ __   __ _     
| |_| |/ _ \ |/ _` | | '__/ _ \/ __/ _ \| '__/ _` | | '_ \ / _` |    
|  _| |  __/ | (_| | | | |  __/ (_| (_) | | | (_| | | | | | (_| |    
|_| |_|\___|_|\__,_| |_|  \___|\___\___/|_|  \__,_|_|_| |_|\__, |    
                                                           |___/     
     _                             ___----__/\   /\  /\ /\                             
  __| | ___  _ __ ___   ___    /\             \ /  \/  /  \________       
 / _` |/ _ \| '_ ` _ \ / _ \  /  \          __________                       
| (_| | (_) | | | | | |  __/ /____\   _____/   _/  |  \_____                     
 \__,_|\___/|_| |_| |_|\___|   || ___/       _/     \       \____
                               __/    /    _/    |   |           \___
                             _/   --__    /           \     \_       \__
        /\                 _/     _      |             |   -  \  __-    \
       /  \      /\       /      /     _/  --__ |  __-  \                \
      /    \    /  \       -____      /                  |          ___---
     /______\  /____\  /\       ---___|_____          ____|_____-----
        ||       ||   /  \                 ----------               
                     /    \                                 /\
           |        /______\              |                /  \
          \|/          ||          |     \|/    /\        /    \
                                  \|/          /  \      /______\                    
                                              /    \        ||
                                             /______\
                                                ||
Fieldrecording is a fun meditative passtime.

One can find great fulfillment in recording, for example some drizzle in a
spring meadow and listening back to that while falling asleep a few months later
in your appartment. You record an enviroment that you can always recall at any
place...change your bedroom in that meadow at any time, travelling in time and
space at your convienience.

Its quite easy to start field recording, the ocassional amateur hobbyist
doesn't have to invest into professional microphones and recording equipment.
Decent advanced omni-directional recorders are available at cheap prices these
days one can even use a phone or old portable cassette recorder, depending on
how low you set the bar of quality (as some sort of punk style lo-fi esthetic
field recording)

One of the problems recording in outside enviroments are the elements of nature.
Rain and wind make annyoing ticks and loud rumbles when they hit the microphone
yet they are definitely sounds you want to capture.

There are wind socks and furry windjammers (foxtails) that help against
the rumbling from the wind but for rain drops the best solution is some kind
of shelter which is sometimes difficult to find when you are out in the
open nature.

What you need:
--------------

- Some kind of material to make the body/framework for the dome:
Bamboo skewers or shapeable metal wire, which you can connect with pieces of
putty or tape.

- something to put over the structure that will absorb the rain and wind:
absorbent cloths, vilt - a material that will protect enough but will let
enough of the sound through.

How to proceed:
---------------

With the skewers or metal wire make a domed skeleton framework and just span
the cloth over it like this:

                                                      .  |  .
                                                 .       |      .
           ____----____                       .          |         .
        _--      |     --_                  .            |           .
     _-- . . . . | . . .   --_              ____________---____________
  _-             |            -_            .           ---           .    
 /   . . . . .   | . . . .  .   \            .           |          .
/                |               \              .        |       .
| . . . . .  . . | . . . . . . . |                 .     |    .
                                                      .  | .

        side view                              top view

now place the recorder underneath the dome and it should be protected
against rain hitting the microphone.

    \         \              \         \
                   \               \             \             \

 \      \                \       \            \           \
                  \
               \            \            \          \         \
      \                            \          \           \       \
  \                   \        \         \            \      \

      \      \     \ /      .   .            .           .      .   .
                    |/          ___------___       \ |   
           |/   .   |   .    _--     _|     --_     \|        |/   |
     |    \|       \|/      /       /:|\       \     |/      \|   \|
    \|/    |  .     |  .   /        |-||        \    |   |/   |    |
_____|_____|________|______|. . . . |_||  . . . .|___|___|____|____|____


experiment to see if its nesseray to keep the wind sock on the recorder when
its in the dome, or what the difference in the recorded sound is, you don't
want it to be too muffled.

Here is an example recording 
[http://www.pacificmicro.org/00%20-%20FieldrecordingsZorgvlietPark27Mei2018.mp3], 
recorded in the spring at a meadow at
the Zorgvliet park in The Hague/Scheveningen with a ZOOM H4 recorder.